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Take the 1973 prize, which was awarded to U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho for "negotiating an end to the war in Viet Nam." The pair had only signed a cease-fire, and a feeble one at that; word of the truce had ignited new fighting in Laos and Kampuchea. Tho refused to accept the award. Brotherhood did not even prevail on the Nobel Committee: two of its five members resigned in protest. Though the Kissinger- Tho pact removed American troops from combat, the war did not end until...
...Widener, in the sub-sub-basement of "C" West--wedged in between crumbling biographies of Louis XIV, his mistresses and long-forgotten ministers of state--lies a small, burgundy leather-bound book that, so far as I can tell, does not appear in the main card catalogue or the DUC. On one of my many solitary trips to "C" West this semester, I discovered this tiny volume which eventually became the focus for a portion of my senior thesis...
...DUC) from their rooms...
...sweeping change in the Vietnamese Communist leadership since the party's founding in 1930. At the Sixth Party Congress in Hanoi last week, three longtime stalwarts resigned because of "advanced age and bad health": General Secretary Truong Chinh, 79, Premier Pham Van Dong, 80, and veteran Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, 76. They are among the last members of the generation of leaders that defeated the French and the Americans on the battlefield. But they failed to reap the benefits of peace, leaving behind a legacy of 800% inflation, widespread unemployment and chronic shortages...
...wholesale grocer in Omaha who invented it for a weekly poker group. Another theory gives credit to Arnold Reuben, whose New York restaurant, a superdeli of the '40s and '50s, featured lofty and complex sandwiches named for celebrity regulars. One example: a combination of cream cheese, bar-le-duc (white currant jam), tongue and sweet pickles on whole wheat was inexplicably the Frank Sinatra...